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L 4 : ( t 4 . “~ F . gy em tf . t re : . i, ca —_. re Cy, ;- ’ # he . a TEL # “6225889 ~ a” 7" - , — fr. . eaaisa SCIERE TOMPLE OF ANSRIDA LY “‘O1ND 706” = cgasucsaserseveg! “ i ” . : ey “g ‘3 | n ’ S regard to the sbove erganisation infcruation has been received nd eoncerning ite activities in the various parts of the United States. Below is > eet forth the location ef the branches of the organization and fects : the organisation end activities in the waricus parte of the United States. mo Chicago sae a The Booriah Science Teaple of Aertea yoterpare ted was @rgenised to foster it - pacial pride and bas attracted numbers ef Chicacge Negroes from time to time. It ~ | is reported to be essentially a religious bedy epporing the Christian faith. . Meaters of the Moorish American Science Temples insist that they are not Negroes and mg @void the use of the word or of *hlack" when refering to Sheneol ves, maintaining that Bo they are really Moors and that their akin is "olive-hued.* In 1925 & emall Hegro, wearing & flaning red fex sieilar to these worn by Turks, &ppecred at empty lots and on streets corners of Chicago’s South Side te proclais @ startling pew doctrine. Me was SBoble Drew Ali, born Timothy Drew in Morth Carolina. He was considered the Prophet of Ielar and founder ef the Moorish American Science Teuple. Little is known of Drow Ali's oariy history. 2e was reputed to have bean an express man in Newark, New Jersey, where he is said to have founded the first Mooriah Amsrican Science Teaple as early az 1913. There is alse some evidence to indicate that he had established branches of hie cult in Pitte- burgh and Detroit before he came to Chicago. reste wein eentention was that the nacre ermecaly known in Azaric of Woorish descent an siatics, Act six ef his "Divine Consti, > Negrocs ars of Woorish descent and thus tution and By-Laws" reads: *¥ith us all sesbere must declare their nationality and their Divine Creed that they may know that they are s part ani partial (six) of this said government and that they are not MBegroes, Colored Folks, Black People or b Bthiopians, because these names were given to slaves, by aleve bolders 42/2 1779 and lasted wntil 1865 during the time of slavery, bet this ie a era of tine now, and all men must proclaim their free national sane to be recognised by the governaent in which they live and the nations of the earth thy is the reason why ALLAR the Great God of the universe ordained wong » the ‘prophet, te redeen his pecple from their sinful ways. Tue Y Snericans are the descendants of tne anc{ént Bosbites who inhabited the Ror Jestera ang South Wea wm oe € i Nb . ‘ Prophet Noble Bret -4i{' did not imedis ly ee} . bamer, the Moorish ster end creacent on s field of red. at he persisted, a yd at Length was able to set up pernanent headquarters, Though agui-literate, be on ' tonne an @logcent tongue, ® persuafi ve manner, and a nitive shrewdness whieh < im to eway the poor and unlettered people who listened to hi. Mose |! He 9 we ie race ricts ee i of then had experienced Atscrisingtion _ ppt? od fees “tl The tem g .. _ * Ale & da rae ae re Ad Rs | vr